The largest crowd ever to see a game at the Whale (3486) may have seen the best game ever played at the Whale tonight as Yale came back from two goals down to beat Harvard 3-2. 1 2 3 Harv 1 1 0=2 Yale 0 1 2=3 First period Scoring 1) Harvard Nielsen (Karmanos, Coughlin) 11:48. Penalities--Harvard Cohagan (hitting from behind) 4:05; Harvard Marcu (interference) 12:12; Yale Brierley (interference) 17:05. Second period Scoring 2) Harvard Sproule (Halfnight, Swenson) 6:55. 3) Yale Cipolla (unassisted) 11:34 Penalities--Harvard McLaughlin (high sticking), Yale Doyle (hitting after the whistle) 3:10; Harvard Breistroff (interference) 9:10; Yale Weidenbach (hitting from behind) 10:21; Harvard McLaughlin (holding) 11:26; Harvard Halfnight (tripping) 17:21. Third period Scoring 4) Yale Barbanti (Doyle, Lombardi) 4:41. 5) Yale Nyberg (Barbanti, Doyle) 16:54. Penalities--Harvard Nielsen (cross-checking) 1:18; Harvard Coughlin (elbowing) 6:30; Harvard McLaughlin (high-sticking), Yale Kozic (slashing) 17:20. Saves Tracy (Har) 8 8 8=24 Sullivan (Yal) 13 9 13=35 Power Plays Harvard 0/2 Yale 0/7 Referees: Cole, Taylor; Linesman: Haggarty Attendance: 3486, New Ingalls Rink Record Capacity at the Whale is 2908, but fortunately the fire marshall was away on business. This improbable Yale team, which had trouble beating Mt. Allison, has now started the regular season with two straight wins over nationally ranked opposition. Yale was in the hole 1-0 in the middle of the second when a shot by Doug Sproule from the corner bounced off the back of Todd Sullivan's pads to double Harvard's lead. Four minutes later, Jason Cipolla won a face-off, beat his man and deked Tripp Tracy to get Yale on the board. Early in the third, Chris Barbanti tied it when he took a pretty feeed in front from Brendan Doyle. The next twelve minutes was some of the best hockey I've ever seen from Yale as we kept mounting the pressure, and Tracy kept it out of the net. Finally, with three minutes left, Dan Nyberg lofted a shot from the blue line that wafted through a screen and floated nicely over Tracy's shoulder. That goal marked Yale's first win against the Crimson since the 1990-91 season. Yale tries to keep the undefeated season alive tomorrow at 7:00 pm against Brown. -- 7000 miles. 10 days. 26 states. 1 cop. No radar detector. From Des Moines to New York Rob Callum From Sault Ste. Marie to New Orleans. [log in to unmask] --11 June to 20 June 1993.